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Aetiology and Pathology of Bell’s palsy.Only 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
This research was performed on 40 patients with Bell’s palsy(having complete facial paralysis): Their ages ranged from 13 to 65 years old, 24 patients were females and 16 patients were males, 22 patients with affected right side and 18 patients with affected left side.
After ensuring that those patients had a normal hearing by doing both the clinical and audiological examinations, stapedial reflex measurement was done for each patient within the first week of the palsy, where it is found that: The stapedial reflex preserved in 10 cases and lost (absent) in 30 cases.
It was found that: The patients whose stapedial reflex remained preserved, had an early and complete recovery of their facial motor function in less than 4 weeks and this indicates that the prognosis was excellent for those patients.
In the patients whose stapedial reflex was lost (absent), the following findings were seen:-
We found that: In patients less than 50 years old, the stapedial reflex recovered early in less than 4 weeks, but in those more than 50 years old, the reflex recovered lately in more than 4 weeks and this indicates the bad effect of elderly on the prognosis of Bell’s palsy.
Our results showed also that: There was no statistical significant.